Norton Internet Security (NIS) and Post failure

[Richard K. Herz]

Good news.  Norton Internet Security 2002 (NIS) now seems to work OK with
the latest version of MetaCard (2.5 Beta 4) under Win XP Pro with the latest
XP service pack installed (posted sometime between Tuesday night and this
morning, Friday).  I just reinstalled NIS today to do this testing and so
can't tell you at what MC version or XP service pack that things started
working.  Disclaimer: I'm not an expert on these matters and there are so
many combinations of settings, many of which I haven't tried, that "seems to
work" is the best I can say.

Rich Herz

> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 07:51:01 +0000
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> From: Dave Cragg <dcragg at lacscentre.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: Norton Internet Security (NIS) and Post failure
> Reply-To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
>
> At 12:06 am -0500 7/2/03, Tariel Gogoberidze wrote:
> >This problem was already mentioned either on this or Rev list by Rich
Herz
> >
> >>There are problems with MC access to internet with Norton
> >>Internet Security (NIS) installed on Win XP. NIS must
> >>be uninstalled, not merely turned off.
> >--
> >>  NIS on Win 98 seems to be working OK.
> >>Rich Herz
> >
> >We are also badly hit by this issue.
> >Our users with windows XP and NIS installed  can't send post command
> >from MC. Sometimes Norton askes for permision to allow MC stanalone
> >to work but then blocks it anyway.
> >
> >I really hope somebody have a solution for this
> >
> >MetaCard 2.4.3, post command used either with libUrl 1.0.8b1 or with
> >our own costume function with post
>
> Have you tried with the latest 2.5 beta engine?
>
> I have no direct experience of NIS, but know that other users also
> had problems with XP's built-in personal firewall. I tested the 2.5
> engine with the built-in firewall and it works on my XP machine here.
>
> A stab in the dark but... are you up-to-date with all the XP updates
> (SP1 + all those security patches)? I'm saying this because at one
> point, with MC 2.4.3, I was unable to connect to a server on
> localhost, but discovered recently that I can now do this (with both
> 2.4.3 and 2.5B). XP updates are the only things I can think of that
> have changed on the machine.
>
> Cheers
> Dave